Col de Pierre Pertuis Old woodcut print Switserland Munster 1550
Col de Pierre Pertuis (el. 827 m.) is a mountain pass in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Berne in Switzerland. Early woodcut print of Col de Pierre Pertuis, a mountain pass in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Bern in Switzerland it connects Sonceboz and Tavannes.
Original woodcut with hand coloring.
Auteur: Sebastian Munster (1488-1552) is one of the most important and famous mapmakers of the mid-sixteenth century, and published two books, an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, in 1540,with 48 double-page woodcut maps, and his Cosmographia, published in 1544,which contained upwards of five hundred woodcuts, including 24 double-page maps.
Origin Cosmographia printed by Henri Petri German edition.
Sheet app.: 11.25 x 7.5 inch. 29 x 19 cm. Condition: A fine leaf in good overall condition.
